Guideline 22: Wages and Labour Costs

Ensure employment-friendly labour cost developments and wage-setting mechanisms.

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Ensure employment-friendly labour cost developments and wage-setting mechanisms by: - encouraging social partners within their own responsibilities to set the right framework for wage bargaining in order to reflect productivity and labour market challenges at all relevant levels and to avoid gender pay gaps; - reviewing the impact on employment of non-wage labour costs and where appropriate adjust their structure and level, especially to reduce the tax burden on the lowpaid See also integrated guideline “To ensure that wage developments contribute to macroeconomic stability and growth” (No.5).

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